List of Keynotes
Keynote 1: George V. Eleftheriades, University of Toronto, Canada
Keynote 2: Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark
Keynote 3: Jeffrey Andrews, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Keynote 4: Dang Wenshuan, Huawei
Keynote 1: George V. Eleftheriades, University of Toronto, Canada
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Title: Huygens’ Metasurfaces for Precise Antenna Beamsteering and Beamshaping
Abstract: We will describe the concept of the Huygens’ metasurface, which comprises co-located electric and magnetic dipoles forming an electrically dense array of Huygens’ sources or scatterers. These engineered surfaces can be designed to control electromagnetic waves at will. Unlike traditional antenna transmit-arrays, Huygens’ metasurfaces can be made sub-wavelength thin and deprived of spurious diffraction orders while preserving excellent matching characteristics. Huygens’ metasurfaces can be used to manipulate the phase, magnitude and polarization of incident electromagnetic waves, including those from nearby elementary antennas, for a variety of applications. For example, Huygens’ omega bi-anisotropic metasurfaces enable wave refraction at extreme angles without any reflections. We will review the progress of such Huygens’ Metasurfaces for antenna beamforming and beamsteering. Cases to be discussed include high aperture efficiency/low-profile antennas, antenna aperture beamforming with simultaneous magnitude and phase control, and electronic beam steering & beamshaping. In a nutshell, Huygens’ metasurfaces can provide the platform for realizing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for emerging 6G wireless communication networks.
Bio:
George V. Eleftheriades is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto Canada where he holds the Velma M. Rogers Graham Chair in Engineering. Prof. Eleftheriades introduced the concept of using transmission lines to realize negative-index metamaterials in 2002. More recently, he pioneered Huygens’ metasurfaces, 2D analogues of metamaterials, and their antenna applications. Professor Eleftheriades received the 2008 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award, the 2015 IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award, and the 2019 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences). His research interests include electromagnetic and optical metamaterials, metasurfaces, antennas and components for broadband wireless communications, novel antenna beam-steering techniques, far-field super-resolution imaging, radars, plasmonic and nanoscale optical components, and fundamental electromagnetic theory.
Keynote 2: Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Title: Coming soon
Abstract: Coming soon
Bio:
Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received his Dipl.-Ing and M. Sc. degrees in communication engineering from the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), IEEE Fred W. Ellersick prize (2016), IEEE Stephen O. Rice prize (2018), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS. Prof. Popovski was the General Chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. He authored the book “Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide”, published by Wiley in 2020. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless connectivity.
Keynote 3: Jeffrey Andrews, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Title: Coming soon
Abstract: Coming soon
Bio:
Jeffrey Andrews (S’98, M’02, SM’06, F’13) received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the Truchard Family Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he is Director of the [email protected] research center. He developed CDMA systems at Qualcomm, and has served as a consultant to Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm, Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Intel, Microsoft, Sprint, and NASA. He is co-author of the books Fundamentals of WiMAX (Prentice-Hall, 2007) and Fundamentals of LTE (Prentice-Hall, 2010). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2014-2016, and is the founding Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (2018-23), and was Chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee (2021-22). Dr. Andrews is an IEEE Fellow and ISI Highly Cited Researcher and has been co-recipient of 16 best paper awards including the 2016 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2014 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2014 and 2018 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the 2011 and 2016 IEEE Heinrich Hertz Prize, and the 2010 IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award. His other major awards include the 2015 Terman Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the 2021 Gordon Lepley Memorial Teaching Award at UT Austin, the 2021 IEEE ComSoc Joe LoCicero Service Award, the 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award, and the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award.
Keynote 4: Dang Wenshuan, Huawei
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Title: Coming soon
Abstract: Coming soon
Bio:
Dang Wenshuan is Director of Future Network Research Dept. at Huawei ICT Strategy & Marketing Dept. He is also the Chief Strategy Architect of Huawei. With multiple roles He leads research on architectural innovation in ICT, plan strategic initiative and promote strategy implementation and communications. His current work focuses on 5G evolution and its applications, 6G research, Artificial intelligence and its applications in industries. ICT technology and sub-systems for Autonomous Driving Vehicle, Cloud solutions for established verticals. Previously He was Director of the Wireless E2E Solution Management Department, where he was responsible for planning and managing 3G,4G and WiMax solutions. When he joined the company in 1997, Dang was responsible for developing RF subsystems for 2G and 3G base stations.